A good time for farming through the ages

Chapter 153 [153] The Importance of Cows (2000)

The students did not start school until the [-]th day of the first lunar month. During the period from the seventh day to the [-]th day of the first month, they took turns making tofu at home, wanting to let the mother-in-law and the mother-in-law have a good rest, and even volunteered to make more and sell them in various villages.

Children of this age have a strong sense of responsibility. They are all poor children who are in charge of their homes early. They don’t compare themselves, they don’t have low self-esteem, and they don’t feel ashamed of selling tofu.

Two or three brothers go out together, pushing and yelling alternately, which is also an indispensable childhood memory.

Sometimes Zhuo Lin would go with her brothers.

Now the two families add up to fifteen or six hens. The output is low in winter, but they can save at least ten eggs a day. It costs three cents each, but I heard that people in the city still cannot buy eggs, because there are not many rural people who can afford to feed chickens.

Not every family can have such good luck as theirs. Both men have formal jobs in the imperial grain, and the girls can sell tofu to make money at home. Who doesn't have old people and children, who drag the family and have a hole, want to do it This kind of business requires manpower, not to mention the lack of technology?
As soon as the amount of bean dregs in the house increases, the animals will take advantage of it, because people who eat too much bean dregs will get tired of it, and no one wants to eat this stuff every day, so they use it to feed chickens and pigs. Although they can be eaten at one time when sold to supply and marketing cooperatives , but the price is still too cheap. If my father sells them at the gate of the furniture factory, the small ones cost four cents and the big ones cost five cents, because their eggs only cost money, and they don’t need the non-staple food tickets issued by the factory.

The country is in a difficult period, as long as the supply exceeds the demand, it will take a limited number of tickets, but it is different from her time, everything needs a ticket, and private sales are not allowed. It can only be said that in comparison, it is obviously more humane here, because of the impeachment. Bigger and wider.

No matter whether it is the uncle, the aunt or the parents, they are very concerned about the health of the children in the family. They are reluctant to eat any eggs saved by others. When they sell them for money, their nine children can get one every day. , Even the eldest and second brothers who are in junior high school can bring a few pickled salted eggs every week.

Because children spend their brains studying and growing their bodies, physical maintenance is more important than anything else.

And making this decision is not easy.

So despite the fact that there are more than a dozen eggs every day, there are not many eggs saved, and every time the eggs saved, the father takes them to the factory and turns them into money for meal expenses. On average, he can bring about ten eggs a week. Let’s have more eggs. When the weather is warm, there are twenty or thirty eggs. This is determined by the frequency of chickens laying eggs. Like winter, it’s not bad to save more than ten eggs a week.

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The Deng family waited until the brothers started school, and there was no news. It seemed that Deng Tingting had never returned after being scared away. This time, their Deng family's desire to rely on Deng Tingting to get some gifts was completely hopeless.

After the brothers all started school, the sister-in-law and Tao Yi rented a bullock cart from the village committee for five cents a day after making tofu in the morning. A Niang took Zhuo Jian to sell tofu at home, and Tao Yi drove the bullock cart, carrying I took my auntie and Zhuo Lin to dig bamboo shoots, Houttuynia cordata, and various wild vegetables in the mountains.

Because of the ox carts, they can come back before dark.

On the last weekend before the start of school, Zhuo Dajun took the children there and brought back a lot of Artemisia annua, Houttuynia cordata, and winter bamboo shoots. Because these ingredients are relatively seasonal, the aunt felt that this stage should not be wasted in vain. Zhuo Lin hadn't been there yet, and she was five or six years old now, so she could do some digging of wild vegetables anyway, so I brought her here too.

When the uncle was sitting in the bullock cart, she mentioned it several times.

"No way, our family will also buy a donkey this year? Like this car, your father can make it, it's not difficult,"

Cows are definitely unaffordable. Cows in this era are equivalent to the harvesters of later generations. They are strong laborers and experts in cultivating fields.

Thirty mu of land for a cow is equivalent to the life and root of an old farmer, so you will see that in ancient times, the Republic of China, and even the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was almost impossible to eat beef. Even if you could eat it, it was a cow that died of old age and disease. Who will kill cattle for profit.

There is no mine at home, so kill the cattle that are plowing the fields at home to eat meat and sell them for money, so as not to be drowned by the spittle of old people or villagers in the village, and their legs are broken, and I lose.

The price of raw cattle in later generations is 15 yuan per catty, and a one-year-old male calf can be sold for tens of thousands of yuan, which is a little. Almost all cows are not sold, because they have to keep their calves.

Then look at this era, she doesn’t know the price of raw cattle, but it is said that buying a calf costs at least seventy, eighty, or even 100 yuan.

One hundred yuan in the 60s is equivalent to 1 yuan in later generations. After all, the age when the average salary was 30 yuan and the era when the average salary was 3000 yuan are [-] times different.

It's impossible for anyone to spend 100 yuan to buy cattle?

Even a donkey needs at least 50 yuan, which is equivalent to 5000 yuan in later generations. Not everyone can buy it, dare to buy it.

Therefore, as soon as the uncle's idea came up, she was mercilessly attacked by Tao Yi.

"Auntie, it's best not to buy it. It may be convenient for us if you buy it, but it's also convenient for others. It's not good to borrow this or not. You will have a headache, and it will make others think how much money our family has made. , so not only can’t buy, but the current scale of our family should not be expanded, whether it’s raising chickens, raising pigs, or making tofu, it’s enough to stabilize the current quantity.”

Originally, Chen Qiuxia just sighed and said something, but she didn't expect Tao Yi to be serious, but when you listened carefully, you found that what he said was correct.

"Xiao Yi, your parents are really amazing, and this has raised you too well, right?"

Tao Yi scratched his head and smiled frankly: "No, it's just that I have seen a lot and experienced a lot. Although I am young, because my ancestors are all in business, so my grandfather taught me some things when I was young. Listen, the more you listen, the more you will naturally be able to integrate it into reality. Later, I found out that this person is the most difficult to get along with, because in this world, there are too many people who don’t like you, even relatives Brothers and sisters are sometimes jealous, let alone those irrelevant outsiders?"

The aunt felt deeply about this, she sighed and patted Zhuo Lin's head.

"Yeah, there are always more people who don't see your kindness than those who see your kindness. This is the human heart. It's okay. Auntie is just talking. I also know the truth about not revealing money. We have money and we have to hide it." Tuck it in, I will use it for your studies in the future. There will be more places to spend money in the future, and it really shouldn't be wasted on these irrelevant things!"

(End of this chapter)